Remember 'Time Bandit' from Michtron??
Blake Patterson
I'm desperately seeking the '85 title Time Bandit for the Amiga. I've
got it for an Atari ST emulator, but I've got Amiga hardware here. I've
got the box right here from when I bought it, in '85, for the Atari ST
(did have one of those, I admit). Quite the game.
I cannot find any reference to it for the Amiga on-line currently (I had
it for the Amiga back in the late 80's---it does exist). Anyone have
any info? Thanks.
bp
--
"Heisenberg may have slept here."
Angus Manwaring
It is supposed to be something of a classic. From the screenshot I found
it was:
Copyright MichTron 1985 (that date is probably to do with an 8-bit
original version)
Microdeal Electronic Publishing¸
Programming Bill Dunlevy
Graphics Harry Lafnear
Amiga Conversion Tim Purves
Does that info deserve a review for the AGDB or what?! :)
All the best,
Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)
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Simon
>
> I'm desperately seeking the '85 title Time Bandit for the Amiga. I've
> got it for an Atari ST emulator, but I've got Amiga hardware here.
That was a real great game !
I also got the Atari ST version... Never seeked for the Amiga one, sorry
:(
BTW, the game has also been released on PC, but I have no idea where to
get it... I got a copy from on of those abandonware websites, but either
the game was MUCH MORE difficult, either it's bugged (ennemies are
impossible to kill and they shoot at you !).
Oh well I'm off topic, sorry.
No idea where to find an original copy of the game for Amiga. You should
try Ebay maybe...
Good luck and let us know if you find it ;-)
Simon
Blake Patterson
"Angus Manwaring" <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Well, point me to a copy of the game and I'll oblige! I've purchased it
for the Atari ST and the Amiga (have the manual in my hand right now) --
I'd not feel to bad about downloading it from somewhere.
I was a huge fan of MichTron (later becoming MicroDeal) from my early
Atari ST days. The game came out for the Atari ST first, in 1985 and
was ported to the Amiga, released in '87 I believe. It's an EXCELLENT
game--not unlike Gauntlet, but with much more depth and theme variation.
Quite a feel to it. The 16-color graphics were very impressive, back
when the ST and Amiga were fairly new on the scene. Still today, they
are impressive. (I've got the Atari ST version here on an emulator on
my Mac.) Since I've got an Amiga 2000 and an Amiga 1200, I'd love to
have the Amiga version to run on this actual hardware.
Amazingly deceptive, the game is, on-line.
Simon
http://nitros9.stg.net/timebandit.html
Wonder how many versions of this game were released !
And it's surprising that no website is dedicated to such a classic game.
Simon.
kid...@remoov.qwest.net
Erm, no... Other then I can confirm it exists. I've played it, I'm kind of
curious as to why you would bother looking for a copy of it? It wasn't,
IMHO, a particularly good game.
Blake Patterson
> Erm, no... Other then I can confirm it exists. I've played it, I'm kind of
> curious as to why you would bother looking for a copy of it? It wasn't,
> IMHO, a particularly good game.
>
>
It was quite a good game, in my opinion. I believe it came out for
the Atari ST first, in '85. I bought it for that platform (in '87),
then for the Amiga when I switched over, but that wasn't until '89.
The game, back in that period, was quite impressive. Really made me
amazed at what I was getting with my Atari ST. And it was only
16-colors. I dunno. Just something "right" about the mood of that
game, etc. Quite a throwback. I can perfectly picture sitting there,
playing that thing like a madman, 14 years ago. Wow.
bp
Blake Patterson
Heh... Maybe I'll set one up! (Seriously)
It looked a little better on the Atari ST and Amiga (direct ST port):
http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n6/TimeBandit.JPG
more here:
http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/people/feldman/vgmuseum/miscgame/timebandit.html
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId%3D2468/
http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n6/STProductNews.html
bp
Simon
> > And it's surprising that no website is dedicated to such a classic game.
>
> Heh... Maybe I'll set one up! (Seriously)
That would be great !
A complete solution, hints and tips, finding back the authors (I'm sure
that wouldn't be so hard, but time consuming).
I've set up a website about Mercenary games, and it's a lot of work, but
rewarding.
Good luck if you build one about Time Bandit, be sure it will be in my
bookmarks :)
Simon.
Simon
> I'm kind of
> curious as to why you would bother looking for a copy of it? It wasn't,
> IMHO, a particularly good game.
You probably missed the adventure game inside the shoot-them-up...
That's one of those games whose concept is almost unique in computer
games history; and that's IMHO what makes it a classic.
Simon.
Angus Manwaring
From what I saw (and personally I've no idea) there are those that feel
differently.
Paul Hill
>kid...@remoov.qwest.net wrote in message news:<
>> Erm, no... Other then I can confirm it exists. I've played it, I'm kind of
>> curious as to why you would bother looking for a copy of it? It wasn't,
>> IMHO, a particularly good game.
>>
>It was quite a good game, in my opinion. I believe it came out for
>the Atari ST first, in '85. I bought it for that platform (in '87),
So it's no relation to 'Time Bandit' published (in the early 80's) by
Microdeal on the old Dragon 32 then?
--
Paul
kid...@remoov.qwest.net
Well, I played it back in like '88 (sometime around it's orginal release),
I can't say I remember much about it, other then I didn't care for it.
Also, it wasn't on my machine, so I only dorked w/ it a couple of times.
If I ever find a copy, I'll give it another shot... Promise. :-)
>Simon.
kid...@remoov.qwest.net
>differently.
Yeah... I never said I was always right, you know. :-p
:-)
kid...@remoov.qwest.net
>>kid...@remoov.qwest.net wrote in message news:<
>>> Erm, no... Other then I can confirm it exists. I've played it, I'm kind of
>>> curious as to why you would bother looking for a copy of it? It wasn't,
>>> IMHO, a particularly good game.
>>>
>>It was quite a good game, in my opinion. I believe it came out for
>>the Atari ST first, in '85. I bought it for that platform (in '87),
I am not going to hear the end of this, am I? What are you people, Time
Bandit zealots or something? :-)
Angus Manwaring
>>From what I saw (and personally I've no idea) there are those that feel
>>differently.
>Yeah... I never said I was always right, you know. :-p
>:-)
My dear chap, its not a question of right and wrong, as you well know.
And anyway you did say IMHO. ;)
Blake Patterson
> So it's no relation to 'Time Bandit' published (in the early 80's) by
> Microdeal on the old Dragon 32 then?
Apparently it did come out first, '83 I think, for the CoCo and/or
Dragon 32. I think they were MichTron, then. MichTron turned into
MicroDeal in like '88 I believe. I still wish I could find it for the
Amiga.
bp
Paul Hill
I've never heard of MichTron. Microdeal were certainly around in 83.
Perhaps Microdeal released a Dragon version?
I can't even remember what the game was about. Some sort of platform IIRC.
I probably still have a D32 copy at my parents house (soon to be destroed I
should add :().
--
Paul
Stot
arcades the joystick rotated to point your player/gun so you could run
backwards and straffe and the like.
Stot
>
> I can't even remember what the game was about. Some sort of platform
IIRC.
> I probably still have a D32 copy at my parents house (soon to be destroed
I
> should add :().
>
> --
> Paul
>
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Eric Haines
> arcades the joystick rotated to point your player/gun so you could run
> backwards and straffe and the like.
>
> Stot
No, it wasn't an arcade game, only on computers. It was more like Pac
Man, in that it involved running around mazes. I only saw it on an
Atari ST...many years ago....
--Eric
Simon
>
> Wasnt Time Bandits a sort of a Commando style game? I remember in the
> arcades the joystick rotated to point your player/gun so you could run
> backwards and straffe and the like.
It's an arcade/adventure game. In fact you have to solve several puzzles
in very different places infested with ennemies.
Multiplayer on the same computer.
Remember Gauntlet ? It's a gauntlet-like game, but with adventure in it,
much more interesting ;)
Review at:
http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n6/STProductNews.html
Simon.
Angus Manwaring
I believe it also had other gameplay elements like strategy, supposedly.
Blake Patterson
> in very different places infested with ennemies.
> Multiplayer on the same computer.
>
> Remember Gauntlet ? It's a gauntlet-like game, but with adventure in it,
> much more interesting ;)
I just wish I could find it. I'm considering purchasing a used Atari
ST and monitor simply to play this game. (The Amiga version is a
direct port of the ST version with no enhancements--but the ST version
still is insanely fine.) It was the first game I purchased on the
Atari ST, it and Major Motion, the night I got the ST. Wow was that
fine to mess with--I'd moved up from an Apple IIe to the Atari ST. I
did enjoy that 520ST. Lots of fun.
I'm amazed I cannot find the Amiga version of this game anywhere. As
I said, I'd purchased both the ST and Amiga versions in the late 80's.
I don't have the disks any longer. Maybe I'll scan the manual and
put it up. I've gone so far as to e-mail (after exhaustive search to
find addresses) several developers that used to work at
MichTron/MicroDeal to ask if they had any idea how I might get hold of
it. Alas, I've not gotten a response.
Can NO ONE have this game? And no---emulation is not satisfactory (I
need it on my A2000 or on an Atari ST).
bp
Marcel DeVoe
> I'm amazed I cannot find the Amiga version of this game anywhere. As
> I said, I'd purchased both the ST and Amiga versions in the late 80's.
> I don't have the disks any longer. Maybe I'll scan the manual and
> put it up. I've gone so far as to e-mail (after exhaustive search to
> find addresses) several developers that used to work at
> MichTron/MicroDeal to ask if they had any idea how I might get hold of
> it. Alas, I've not gotten a response.
> Can NO ONE have this game? And no---emulation is not satisfactory (I
> need it on my A2000 or on an Atari ST).
I err, think I've found it. It's a cracked version though and crashes on
my 4000 even even when booted with ReloKick1.3.
Email me with your correct address if you want it.
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Yojimbo
hard as 8088 level software to sell nowadays anyway) in my basement,
original with the box. I haven't fired up my Amiga in a long time,
converting to PC ever since my second external drive started calling -every-
DF1: as BAD. And that was a replacement drive after my previous did that.
The two drive exchange shuffle is a -major- pain. Anyway, I vaguely recall
it Gaunlet-like and decent (seems there was even a Star Trek section via the
different rooms. I guess, in those days, one's like Nuclear War, Rocket
Ranger, Wings(!), Shanghai, Psychnosis (almost unplayable in difficulty but
beautiful) etc. seemed to be the Amiga's personal killer (game) apps.
Jim B. NW Ontario
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